tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post4437158373921890109..comments2024-02-24T09:14:44.403+00:00Comments on The Poor Mouth: The great unreadjams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-19796544905511128782007-03-14T22:19:00.000+00:002007-03-14T22:19:00.000+00:00I used to have a very handy second had book shop a...I used to have a very handy second had book shop a couple of hundred yards away but sadly it's gone and thee arent any more locally. The charity shops soemetimes have some good stuff but I need to be in a mood to rummage.<BR/><BR/>I have given myself the same permission. I may be over a decade younger but I don't have the time to waste on seeing crappy books through to the end eitherjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-44537108511085306892007-03-14T21:19:00.000+00:002007-03-14T21:19:00.000+00:00Half Price Books, a chain of used book stores in T...Half Price Books, a chain of used book stores in Texas and the source of a goodly portion of my library, offers a ghastly product called Books by the Yard... they supply restaurants, doctors' waiting rooms etc. with lots of books with pretty spines; contents be damned. I can't blame HPB, they're just selling what decorators want, and apart from that, they're a very respectable used book store. But the whole notion of Books by the Yard is sure to offend any book lover.<BR/><BR/>I have permission not to finish any book that proves itself not worth the time and trouble. I gave myself that permission a few years back when I turned 50; life's too short to waste reading bad books.Steve Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587223243120009776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-58606818687489326642007-03-14T07:22:00.000+00:002007-03-14T07:22:00.000+00:00Oh Skuds. is you site down? I have not been able t...Oh Skuds. is you site down? I have not been able to access if for over a week nowjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-78880544142480924352007-03-14T07:21:00.000+00:002007-03-14T07:21:00.000+00:00I liked Vernon Go little too Skuds. I am surprised...I liked Vernon Go little too Skuds. I am surprised it got the rating it did.. I would have imagined that War and Peace or Ulysses would have had more readers that never made it to the end<BR/><BR/>I can't get into Pynchon. I've tried and utterly failed. Never tried Harry Potter though. I probably would if we had kidsjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-84422951462629314452007-03-14T01:04:00.000+00:002007-03-14T01:04:00.000+00:00I was surprised about Vernon God Little. I rather...I was surprised about Vernon God Little. I rather enjoyed it.<BR/><BR/>Currently trying to decide whether to finish Thomas Pynchon's V... halfway through it but that still means a hell of a long way to go.<BR/><BR/>As for Harry Potter 4 - I gave up reading after about 2 pages of Harry Potter 1! Having bought the books for the kids I am keeping them though - just in case I suffer some sort of brain trauma one day and find them acceptable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-8065607527378521912007-03-13T21:48:00.000+00:002007-03-13T21:48:00.000+00:00THe same goes for a lot of people who seem to spen...THe same goes for a lot of people who seem to spend half their lives in front of the paparazzi. I think he used to be a footballer once, you know!<BR/><BR/>To be honest I find a lot of 19th century literature too wordy and far too long. Perhaps because a fair bit of it was written as a serialisation in periodicals - more words meant more pay, I suppose. It does mean I am not a fan of, say. Dickens but Zola is very readablejams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-45172914011564591322007-03-13T21:39:00.000+00:002007-03-13T21:39:00.000+00:00This may shock people but Les Miserables was too l...This may shock people but Les Miserables was too long. 127 pages describing a monastary was enough.<BR/>I quit reading arount the first 10%<BR/>of the book. Victor Hugo needed an editor.beakerkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06088967209404588378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-33419365806858279422007-03-13T13:09:00.000+00:002007-03-13T13:09:00.000+00:00I read that article too! I was surprised that anyo...I read that article too! I was surprised that anyone would even pick up Becham's biography let alone pay actual money for it for the privilege of taking it home. Why? Everything you need to know about him is on the front page of the tabloids on any given day.elasticwaistbandladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643871078268503643noreply@blogger.com